文章基本信息

标题：Editorial
本地全文：下载
作者：Jana Kalin ; Milena Valenčič Zuljan
期刊名称：Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal
印刷版ISSN：1855-9719
电子版ISSN：2232-2647
出版年度：2015
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：5-11
出版社：University of Ljubljana
摘要：Globalization, the development of technology, mobility, the labourmarket, the diversity of learners, educational reforms and the like have alreadydirectly and indirectly affected higher education and faced higher educationinstitutions and lecturers with new challenges.Higher education has already been discussed in two previous issues ofCEPS, in 2012/2 and 2014/2 but from the point of view of educational policies.This issue is focused on higher education didactics, i.e. on the processesof teaching and learning at the higher education level and on the importanceof the development of higher education institutions as professional learninginstitutions that have contextual influence on the quality of the higher educationlearning process. The development of learning communities and the professionaldevelopment of each individual that is understood as “a process ofsignificant and lifelong empirical learning in which teachers develop their owncomprehensions, and are changing their teaching practice; it is the process thatincludes teachers’ individual, professional and social dimension, and it is alsoteachers’ progressing towards the direction of critical, independent, responsibledecision-making and acting” (Valenčič Zuljan, 2001, p. 131) are interdependent.The professional development of individuals contributes significantly tothe development of communities and, in return, the learning community is animportant foundation for the development and learning of each of its members.